Again, Pax. But....in this case seeing is believing. Produce the work, prove that
Tolkien wrote it, and I'll believe it.
But, quite frankly, I don't think he was a believer in Apocalypticism.
From a letter to Amy Ronald dated December 15, 1956 (recorded as Letter 195 in
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien) he said the following about the theme:
“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ - though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.”
Tolkien wrote from the heart. What he says of the nature of good and
evil in his works he believed to be true in real life, this life.
When he said he did not expect History to anything be anything but a long defeat he believed it not just with respect to ME but also to this earth and human history. If he believed it true only with respect to ME, he would not have included the statement about being RC, because his RC beliefs would have been irrelevant to his statement concerning ME.
The "long defeat" implies a long view of Human History. Yes, we are moving toward "an end" but, again, I think that Tolkien saw it quite distant ...'way far off.
And Catholic Church has never taught that the end times are imminent, not in the past 2000 years, nor in Tolkien's time, nor ours.
Any specific prediction of the
eschaton the CC considers "private revelation"; not doctrinal, not a
de fide teaching.** The church is silent about such matters; a Catholic is free to believe a current prophesy, or not.
**What has occurred at Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe, Medjugorje, etc., all the visions of anyone who lived after 100 AD (and writings based on those visions) are also considered by the CC to be private revelations. Again, one is free to believe them, or not.